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Re: Socket owner

Subject: Re: Socket owner
From: "Peter Lovell" <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:48:11 -0500

>Hi,
>
>I have a question about determining the owner of a socket. By owner I mean
>the process that created it. If I am looking at a socket structure via an
>NKE, is there a way I can determine the process ID of the process that
>generated it?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Eric

HI Eric,
yes you can but only at the time the socket is created. It's a "non-
supported" access to kernel structures, though and may change in the future.

Note that the accessor of the socket may change later, if it's being
passed around.

pid = current_proc()->p_pid;

Cheers.....Peter
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